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Tlie late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
popular scientific journals, which welcomed a correspondent 
from the rooms of the Geological Society ; and thus he was 
enabled to bear the various expenses — fees for lectures, teachers, 
classes, books — in which his student life involved him. All 
this while his geological studies were advancing. His mastery of 
the museum in which his duties chiefly lay was itself a full 
geological education ; and when Mr. Rupert Jones became 
Professor of Geology at Sandhurst, young Jenkins was, to his 
intense delight, appointed to the office which his chief and friend 
had held. It must not be omitted here that one great incentive 
to the urgency of all he did for self-education during this pre- 
liminary period lay in the hope and prospect of his marriage. 
His future wife was one of the charming daughters of Mr. 
Charlton, who had long been an officer of the Geological 
Society, and is still on duty at Burlington House. His 
acquaintance there, soon growing into love, was a perpetual 
spur to the efforts which so early won their way. 
His marriage took place soon after his succession to the office 
of Assistant Secretary, and he thereafter resided at New Barnet. 
And from Barnet he daily came to his work at Somerset House, 
where his duties consisted in the superintendence of the Library 
and Museum, in the editorship of the Society's ' Journal,' in 
preparing the agenda for the periodical meetings of the Society 
and its Council, in preparing abstracts of the English papers 
to be read, and in translating any foreign memoirs that might 
reach the Society, whether from France, Germany, or Italy. 
The correspondence of the Society, too, was to a considerable 
extent conducted by the Assistant Secretary, who also repre- 
sented the Society in conferences, or at any meetings affecting 
its interests. How thoroughly he discharged these duties is 
attested by those who crowded round him with their creden- 
tials when he ultimately sought appointments elsewhere. He 
applied for the office of Curatorship to the Natural History 
Museum at Sydney in 1864, and a very striking body of testi- 
mony to his fitness for its duties accompanied his application 
at that time, which was, however, too late. The Presidents and 
Secretaries of the Society, Sir Roderick Murchison, Professors 
Huxley, Ramsay, T. Rupert Jones, Martin Duncan, and others, 
may be quoted among those who declared him competent. I 
am indebted to Dr. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., since President 
of the Geological Society, and now Professor of Geology in 
King's College, for reminiscences of this period. Mr. Jenkins 
had more than the general geological knowledge which must 
be possessed by an efficient curator of a geological museum. 
He had done original work in the geological field, as his 
several papers at that time in scientific journals and magazines 
